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You wouldn't be able to buy a Burmese python as a pet anymore in Florida, under a bill drafted by a state senator who said the state should shut off the source of "dangerous reptiles" that have colonized the Everglades. http://www.physorg.com/news172917334.html Biology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:40:02 EST news172917334 A 22-year-old Orlando-area man is hospitalized after being infected with the same deadly amoeba that killed three boys in 2007, according to the Orange County, Fla., Health Department. http://www.physorg.com/news172861361.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:40:01 EST news172861361 (PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park. http://www.physorg.com/news172743431.html Biology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:20:03 EST news172743431 Seems like every week a species from somewhere else shows up in a new area and takes over, wreaking havoc. The latest hotspot: the Galapagos, where non-native mosquitoes are arriving via aircraft and tour boats. http://www.physorg.com/news170964606.html Biology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:10:01 EST news170964606 (AP) -- The world's only naturally migrating whooping cranes, and the species' best chance for survival, died at about twice their normal rate last year and will likely see an overall drop in their numbers, a worrying sign for the once near-extinct bird that has been making a comeback. http://www.physorg.com/news170443781.html Biology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:30:26 EST news170443781 After years spent hunting for the buried remains of prehistoric animals, a Canadian paleontologist now plans to manipulate chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur. http://www.physorg.com/news170426405.html Other Sciences Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:40:40 EST news170426405 Germany's largest solar park, and the world's second biggest, was inaugurated on Thursday on the site of a former Soviet military training ground in the east of the country. http://www.physorg.com/news169993976.html Technology Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:33:50 EST news169993976 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mosquitoes with the potential to carry diseases lethal to many unique species of Galapagos wildlife are being regularly introduced to the islands via aircraft, according to new research published today. http://www.physorg.com/news169282786.html Biology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:00:27 EST news169282786 Large trees have declined in Yosemite National Park during the 20th century, and warmer climate conditions may play a role. http://www.physorg.com/news168094371.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:58:29 EST news168094371 Researchers are proposing in a new report that a major experiment be conducted to reintroduce wolves to a test site in the Scottish Highlands, to help control the populations and behavior of red deer that in the past 250 years have changed the whole nature of large ecosystems. http://www.physorg.com/news167311315.html Biology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:23:09 EST news167311315 Thread-like fungi that grow in soils at high elevations may play an important role in restoring whitebark and limber pine forests in Canada. Montana State University professor Cathy Cripps is looking for ways to use fungi to help pine seedlings get a strong start. http://www.physorg.com/news167057753.html Biology Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:56:44 EST news167057753 Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released this week. http://www.physorg.com/news166251048.html Biology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:51:23 EST news166251048 Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong. http://www.physorg.com/news165816652.html Other Sciences Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:11:24 EST news165816652 (AP) -- Bush administration officials pushed aside the National Park Service and sought to lease public lands for drilling on the borders of Utah's most famous redrock parks during their final days in power, a special report to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says. http://www.physorg.com/news163990357.html Space & Earth Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:53:01 EST news163990357 Sulfolobus islandicus, a microbe that can live in boiling acid, is offering up its secrets to researchers hardy enough to capture it from the volcanic hot springs where it thrives. In a new study, researchers report that populations of S. islandicus are more diverse than previously thought, and that their diversity is driven largely by geographic isolation. http://www.physorg.com/news162642213.html Biology Wed, 27 May 2009 11:24:12 EST news162642213 Concerned that powerboats are tearing up seagrass in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park has proposed a range of possible restrictions on boaters to protect a vast, shallow estuary that supports sea turtles, fish and clouds of wading birds. http://www.physorg.com/news161875522.html Space & Earth Mon, 18 May 2009 14:25:57 EST news161875522 A new report from the National Research Council finds a lack of strong scientific evidence that the present level of oyster farming operations by Drakes Bay Oyster Co. (DBOC) has major adverse effects on the ecosystem of Drakes Estero, a body of water north of San Francisco within Point Reyes National Seashore, which is owned by the National Park Service. http://www.physorg.com/news160753276.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 May 2009 14:41:49 EST news160753276 (AP) -- The only bald eagle nest on Santa Cruz Island is now a lonely place, one that webcam viewers were delighted to monitor just a few weeks ago. http://www.physorg.com/news159860074.html Biology Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:36:36 EST news159860074 (AP) -- Ecuador officials say a volcano is erupting in the Galapagos Islands and could harm unique wildlife. http://www.physorg.com/news158723054.html Space & Earth Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:44:55 EST news158723054 (AP) -- The two dozen or so gray wolves that wander an island chain in northwestern Lake Superior are suffering from backbone malformations caused by genetic inbreeding, posing yet another challenge to their prospects for long-term survival, according to wildlife biologists. http://www.physorg.com/news158049807.html Biology Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:44:08 EST news158049807 Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once thought to remain firmly fixed in place, in fact move beneath Earth's crust. http://www.physorg.com/news157902147.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:50:37 EST news157902147 (AP) -- A rare Hawaii vine has been added to the endangered species list, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news156540559.html Biology Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:29:44 EST news156540559 Children at high risk of obesity who live near parks and recreation areas are apt to participate in walking activities more often, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism. http://www.physorg.com/news156096349.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:06:45 EST news156096349 Arsenic may be tough, but scientists have found a Yellowstone National Park alga that's tougher. http://www.physorg.com/news155841706.html Space & Earth Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:22:22 EST news155841706 New infra-red footage released Thursday captures hitherto unseen images of elusive Javan rhinos, the most endangered mammal in the world with less than 60 individuals believed to remain alive. http://www.physorg.com/news155484557.html Biology Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:09:47 EST news155484557 The southeast Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, home to some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth, has created its first national conservation area to preserve forever a swath of pristine tropical forest larger than Singapore. http://www.physorg.com/news155278758.html Biology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:59:50 EST news155278758 (PhysOrg.com) -- The wind barreled across the ice at Daily Lake as Montana State University paleoecologist Cathy Whitlock and three students used all their strength to pull a metal pipe out of the mucky lake bottom. With much effort, they hauled up 16,000 years of history from the glacial lake. http://www.physorg.com/news154967156.html Space & Earth Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:27:14 EST news154967156 (PhysOrg.com) -- Neutral atoms--having no net electric charge--usually don't act very dramatically around a magnetic field. But by `dressing them up` with light, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaborative venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park, have caused ultracold rubidium atoms to undergo a startling transformation. http://www.physorg.com/news154769672.html Physics Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:36:38 EST news154769672 A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Gitler and colleagues found a genetic interaction between two Parkinson's disease genes (alpha-synuclein and PARK9) and determined that the PARK9 protein can protect cells from manganese poisoning, which is an environmental risk factor for a Parkinson's disease-like syndrome. The findings appear online this week in Nature Genetics. http://www.physorg.com/news152720701.html Medicine & Health Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:25:21 EST news152720701 No trace remains of the wolves whose howls ricocheted for millennia down the lush valleys of the Olympic Peninsula. Settlers and trappers killed them all in little more than three decades. http://www.physorg.com/news152463800.html Biology Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:03:55 EST news152463800